Publications

Publication details [#65578]

Kehoe, Margaret. 2018. The development of rhotics: a comparison of monolingual and bilingual children. Bilingualism 21 (4) : 710–731.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | child | crosslinguistic perspective | monolingualism | phonology1

Language as a subject

German | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This assay explores the /r/ learning in German and Spanish monolingual and bilingual children aged 1;9 to 3;6. German and Spanish are featured by distinct /r/s: a uvular approximant versus an alveolar tap and trill. Results match cross-linguistic interaction in the /r/ learning, in which bilinguals' phonological systems approach each other.